Patterns in the Sand
Subtitle: Computers, Complexity, and Everyday Life (Frontiers of Science (Perseus Books))
Publisher: Perseus Books Group; Perseus Books
Published: June 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780738200156
Subjects: Chaos theory; Non-linear science; Popular science; Fractals; Biology (General); Computer Science (General); Science; Science/Mathematics; General; Biology; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Chaotic Behavior in Systems; Computational complexity
First sentence: The date was 5 May 1961.
Description: Presents a new vision of the most revolutionary scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Annotation. In this fresh look at the science of complexity, a biologist and a computer scientist discuss this profound new field of knowledge, using examples from starfish to traveling salesmen, from car crashes to the workings of the brain.